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Cruz: No Action Against Staffers Who Spread False Rumor Ben Carson Was Dropping Out
Real Clear Politics ^

Posted on 02/03/2016 2:04:43 PM PST by springwater13

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz said he will not discipline staffers who spread a rumor that Ben Carson was going to drop out of the race in an attempt to get Carson supporters to caucus for Cruz in Iowa. Cruz appeared on the Mike Gallager Show on Wednesday and talked about staffers who pushed a report that Carson wasn't going on to campaign in New Hampshire or South Carolina.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bencarson; dirtytricks; election2016; iowa; newhampshire; southcarolina; tedcruz; texas
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To: Third Person
Cruz is a dead end. His campaign is a catastrophe in the waiting.

You left the pin in that grenade. Please pick up your trash and leave the room.

41 posted on 02/03/2016 2:19:15 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: hillarys cankles

That’s not true. The Cruz campaign’s tweet went out at 7:00 p.m. CNN reports started around 4:00 p.m.


42 posted on 02/03/2016 2:19:24 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: springwater13

Tomorrow ObamaTRADE becomes Law partially because of
Cruz (Goldman Sachs, SECRET) vote to allow
its passage.


43 posted on 02/03/2016 2:20:09 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: libbylu

RE: Should he fire Steve King?

No, because King isn’t “employed” by his campaign.

What Cruz should do is distance himself from King’s remark.

And BTW, King tweeted an apology to Carson.


44 posted on 02/03/2016 2:20:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Tenacious 1

Are you speaking poorly of yourself?


45 posted on 02/03/2016 2:20:28 PM PST by Third Person (Andmoreagain)
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To: libbylu

Who is Dan Gabriel?

“Source inside Ben #Carson’s NH campaign just CONFIRMED to me:
@Realbencarson is OUT.
>>>#ChooseCruz

So this guy, who works for Cruz, confirmed that carson was getting out. Ok, gotcha.


46 posted on 02/03/2016 2:21:13 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: humblegunner

I’ll say one thing Trump needs to forget Cruz and start hitting Rubio hard. The GOPe, the talking heads and Fox are all coalescing around Marco Rubio. Its going to be all Rubio all the time going forward. The establishment is going to try to Mitt Romney us and we better pay attention and so should Trump.


47 posted on 02/03/2016 2:21:21 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Agreed. Cruz’s staff retweeted a CNN newsfeed.


48 posted on 02/03/2016 2:21:44 PM PST by sphinx
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To: springwater13

It is a fascinating commentary on the epistemology of this election:

Rubio can disseminate the false meme from CNN

CNN can disseminate the false meme

Cruz cannot

FR and other major sites will maintain that Cruz and Cruz alone bears the brunt of misunderstanding that going home to florida to get fresh clothes is misunderstood as possibly dropping out.

I hope conservatives figure out that all this hate directed at Cruz is because he is actually the one over the target— not Donald and certainly not rubio.

Rubio is the new establishment life raft.

They will ride the blame cruz train as long as they can on this giving Rubio as pass because he needs to win this thing.


49 posted on 02/03/2016 2:22:02 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: libbylu

“This was a mistake from our end, and for that I apologize to Dr. Carson,” Cruz said in a statement Tuesday, hours after he was declared the winner in Iowa while Carson finished a distant fourth.


50 posted on 02/03/2016 2:22:25 PM PST by kabar
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To: humblegunner

You’ve got a pretty good case of butthurt about Cruz, huh?

________________________________________________

Since the day he signed up. But give the little fella some credit here. He is very VERY concerned about Ted. And has been.

(insert concern troll pic here)


51 posted on 02/03/2016 2:22:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Is Ted Cruz a US Citizen? Yeah? Then Shut Up and Vote for Him.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Team Cruz tweeted that Carson was dropping out of the campaign, not going to FL for R&R.

Cruz seems to refuse to take responsibility for anything.


52 posted on 02/03/2016 2:23:09 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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To: springwater13

53 posted on 02/03/2016 2:23:24 PM PST by entropy12 (Cruz could double as a wind sock!)
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To: springwater13

38 - 14


54 posted on 02/03/2016 2:23:46 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I didn’t see tweets and letters sent out, by other campaigns, about Carson getting out of the race after Iowa.

I’ve been busy in meetings, maybe I missed those tweets/letters about Carson’s getting out, by other campaigns.


55 posted on 02/03/2016 2:23:59 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Trump will have to hit back hard at Cruz as well. Cruz is in full attack mode today against Trump.


56 posted on 02/03/2016 2:24:37 PM PST by kabar
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To: TTFlyer
So which is it?(i’m talking to you, Rush Limbaugh, you too Mark Levin)Is Dr. Carson(and Sarah Palin too) a “whiner, a “baby,” a “hired hack” casting aspersions on St. Ted The Religious?

Or is Cruz a conniving hack who will resort to dirty tricks to win at all costs?

Which is it?

Is this everybody's first following of a presidential primary race? This is politics. Remember the Bush Vs. Reagan Primary? This isn't a game of chess or shuffleboard. It's politics.

57 posted on 02/03/2016 2:24:45 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: hollyweed

Maybe someone on his staff should have explained to Dr. Carson that it would be cheaper to buy some clothes at Wal-Mart instead of flying home to get some clean clothes.


58 posted on 02/03/2016 2:24:47 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SoFloFreeper
Can anyone blame ANYONE for thinking Carson was dropping out?

Yes. There was no reason to say that Carson was dropping out unless Carson released a statement that he was dropping out.

Really bad judgment and smells of a Nixon dirty trick.

59 posted on 02/03/2016 2:25:19 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: SeekAndFind
"Team Cruz re-tweeted it near the start of the caucus at about 7 PM."

You missed the part where Steve King tweeted out to all the Cruz staffers that Carson was dropping out of the race and Iowans should not waste their vote.

60 posted on 02/03/2016 2:25:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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